Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.