Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

Life is not about longevity but about effectiveness

Life is part of negative, and full of positive only wise knows it.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.