The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.

The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.