Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

Create, artist, do not talk.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.