Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.