Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.

A chief does not hurry.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

I lived for art, I lived for love

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.