Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

What remains is solitude.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?