What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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

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.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

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.