I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

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.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.