. . . and some words of wisdom from Peter Ustinov, taken from this page.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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