It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.

I can't remember names and things.

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.

It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.