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

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

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.

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.

We do battle with our minds and deceptive hearts, that we may might lay our souls down upon the grace of God.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.