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 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 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.

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

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.

Nancy was so thrilled, I thought she was going to kiss me—and I thought I was actually going to have to hit a chick.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

My administration doesn’t have any secrets, and from now on, neither will you.

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend.

Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

I guess some things never change.