The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

I just don't believe in generalisations.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.