Life is what happens when you make other plans.
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.