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.

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

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

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

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!