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.

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.

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.

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it.

Darkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me.