It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

I don't want to say my mom is late on trends, but this morning she said, Have a shagadelic day, sweetheart.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.