If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

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

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal