I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Life is but a day

They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.