Every year I buy a diary that has two days to a page and I fill it with nonsense details about what I had for dinner and where I went during my lunch hour. Things that aren't particularly interesting to anyone else, but are interesting for me to look back on later. I can never remember the little things like that, but whenever I do, it brings back the more important memories that I do remember.

Anyway, each page has a quote on it and I would like to share the best of them with you now.

Bill Bryson:

"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock:

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Confucius:

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Abraham Lincoln:

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Lord George Gordon Byron:

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Abraham Lincoln:

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Julian Clary:

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Jeremy Paxman:

I hate the word 'sneering'. I can't help the way my face looks.

Dean Acheson:

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.