Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Please keep off the grass.

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.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach