Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?

A bird who can gobble is qualified to teach crowing.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.

We invent the past and remember the future.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.