It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.