I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Time ... is the life of the soul.

I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.

You cant spend your life apologizing.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.