War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?