I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

I'm not bald. I'm just taller than my hair.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.