Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.