I can be as contrary as I choose.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

I don't want to do a lot of talking on the military. I want to talk after it's finished, not before it starts.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.