Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.