And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.