Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

I have lived long enough to know that wherever there is crisis there is always Christ. Look for Jesus in the middle of all your crisis. Whenever He comes the whole storm goes down.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.