Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

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.