Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

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

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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.

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