It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Without forgiveness, there is no healing.

Magnanimous of you.'His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.

The world and it's people are my church".~R. Alan Woods [1996]

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

I’m freakishly tall, so finding pants that fit is something I’ve struggled with my whole life.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.