Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

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.

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

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.