"I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards."

"Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls."

"As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny."

"I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet."

"Wisdom principle 64 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 52."

"It is a quiet truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 18 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 60."

"Wisdom principle 9 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 67."