My biggest hero Gregory Peck was my birthday present on April 14 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100 000 in one day in a posh boutique.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart like a drawing that a child does.

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents you know.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me and who I really love.

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2 000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

For the last five years we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has and I think maybe what we saw was the best.