The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves.

We not only need to have a deep respect for children

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .