Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

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.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.