I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

New Zealand is a place where you can get well.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

Words are the bricks of our world and they have the power to change it.

I hate coming out of conversations without learning anything.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.