Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

I've been truly protected by my uncles.