If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.