Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

His dimples should come with an advisory label: Will cause hearts to flutter and panties to spontaneously combust.

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.        To date, I had made three.

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.