Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.