I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes, ' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn't.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

A winner never stops trying.