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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.