I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein but an opponent also of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops law enforcement workers and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

We need to decide that we will not go to war whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media because war in our time is always indiscriminate a war against innocents a war against children.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects their wives their children their families their neighbours? How can you justify this?

If you want to fight a war on drugs sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Tell the children the truth.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home they become latchkey kids and trust me the consequences of that are not good.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people it's an intimate medium of television and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

I teach for the Book Trust which promotes reading and writing with children.

I trust the time is coming when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

As an alcoholic you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us helpless like children a trust that is put upon us.

If I had children I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

When you're a kid I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel and a lot of being away which is impractical because I have four children so I don't want to be away that much not the other side of the world away.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

I travel all the time and I have two small children.