I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.