My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was just standing there talking.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

All men are equal before fish.

Before I refuse to take your questions I have an opening statement.

Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before.

What gay culture is before it is anything else before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain is a culture of friendship.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before or else estrange them.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

To stop terrorists before the strike we must do three things: deny them entry into the country curtail their freedom of action inside the country and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children one that now begins before birth.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Even before I knew I was gay I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 he was an angry relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.