The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

When there is harmony between thoughts and deeds, there is peace.

So many men in my life have tried to “fix me”

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.