A bushel of self-confidence.

A strong sense of being loved and a hopefulness for their life ahead.

For them, home is the world. For them, every human being is just one member of that large human family you have. ... if we have more children like mine, in my view, we will not have war.

So it seems to be my responsibility, particularly to my children, also to my wife and friends, is not to be Pollyanna and pretend everything's okay no one would take me seriously if I said that but it's to be as present in their lives now as I can be so that in years to come, they don't feel either guilty or bad at my having been left out of their lives, that they feel still a very strong not a memory of particular actions but a memory of a complete family rather than a broken one. That seems to be something I can do or try to do.

When I was climbing I was absolutely happy. I can use a climbing wall, but that’s not the same as real climbing.

I was a huge daydreamer and imagined myself as a successful general leading his troops into battle.

It’s my snoring that keeps Loreto awake!

The loss of Conrad.

Whenever things seem absolutely terrible, to see that you’re alive and that’s all that matters.

I left the army and got a job with Unilever in Northern Ireland. They were very strict and you had to have a hat, and when you went into a shop you had to raise your hat to the shopkeeper and then sell your wares. I was selling margarine.