I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.