Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland with all respect for the other countries.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in everybody.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now so he's no longer active as a civil engineer but still a very active person.

Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.