I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer by nature.

I often get letters quite frequently from people who say how they like the programmes a lot but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?