Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.