All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.

To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.