The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.

Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.