Chatterers are a menace.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.