Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.