Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

I absolutely insist that all my boys are in bed before breakfast

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

When you pray, you talk to God. When you meditate, you listen to God.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.