"I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard."

"I simply don't understand why the Nobel academy gave him a peace prize or why Charlie Dimmock and Alan Titchmarsh gave him a new garden. And I don't see why he should be given a statue in Trafalgar Sq…"

"Journalism is disseminating information that someone does not want known; the rest is propaganda. Its function is to expose what is hidden, give testimony and, therefore, to disturb."

"Wonder is defined by Thomas in the Summa Theologiae , as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know."

"My start, my childhood, was less than auspicious. But when I was young, we didn’t know we lacked anything, because we had nothing to compare it to — and there's a freedom in that. I had a very hard wo…"