The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves... - Peter Ustinov

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.