The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.