Max Hastings

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.