It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

There is room in history for all of us.