I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

I've realized how little sleep I actually need.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.