History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

One of the things that struck me when I was a kid and I was learning about Pompeii was these figures that were frozen in the moments of their death. It is very powerful imagery, and it is very emotional and very evocative.

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.