"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor."

"If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time."

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

"When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics."

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."