Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.