I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.

Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.

Humans are capable of any thing. Just look how most technology you use today and see its origin and you will see over time we can improve in different ways.

If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.