we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.

Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.