DAVID FROST

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich.

Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

In America candidates run for office while in England they just stand for office.

Vote Labor and you can build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.