I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter.

To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.