I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

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.

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

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.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.