People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.