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.

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.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

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.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.