I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

Tie me kangaroo down, sport.

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'