Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

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.