That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.

Writing is the new reading

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

What the wise seek is in themselves

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.