“My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.”

“Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.”

“Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.”

“For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.”

“When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sens...”

“I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes in an Alfa Spider.”

“Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.”

“I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world.”

“What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.”

“The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before ...”

“Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.”

“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”

“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”