If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

No time like the present