Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.