I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.