School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Your library is your paradise.

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.