It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.

If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you’ll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn’t easily found in the self.

Do not worry, Rose. I do not bite unless you wish me to.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.