To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

In the end there will be people who did the work of the Lord. They were busy in the church. They had done many wonderful works. But Jesus Himself says, “I never knew you” [Matthew 7:23 NKJV].

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.