I Had A Happy Childhood.

Don't Accept That You Are In Crisis Just Because Everyone Says You Are.

Friends Have Suggested That I Am The Least Qualified Person To Talk About Happiness, Because I Am Often Down, And Sometimes Profoundly Depressed. But I Think That's Where My Qualification Comes From. Because To Know Happiness, It Helps To Know Unhappiness.

The Thing About Politicians In Britain Is That They Are Out There, You Can Lobby Them, Get Close To Them, There Are Loads Of Ways You Can Protest Against Them, And Booing Is A Pretty Weak Way Of Doing It.

The Media Are Obsessed With Spin Doctors And With Portraying Them As A Bad Thing, Yet Seem Addicted To Our Medicine.

I Do Think It's Strange That I Get Associated With Iraq More Than The People Who Were Foreign Secretary Or Defence Secretary. It's Because Of My Closeness To Tony [blair], Which I Don't Regret At All. I Think That Was A Privilege.