Communication is something we all take for granted.

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everything. She was my closest confidante always. I had no secrets from her.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.