Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

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.

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

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

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.