It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

No Soul is identical – yet all Souls are unified.

It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

We really should get some X-rays,” the EMT said. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT.

There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.