[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

What’s the difference between a dream and a goal? Ink. That’s right. Goals must be written down.

You cannot cherish God without loving people

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment.

I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.