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.

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.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.