To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.