I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

The next time you feel really good, just keep feeling that way for the rest of your life.

Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.