And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'