I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Nothing is possible without time

Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

A fact is not a truth until you love it.