The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

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.