My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

The soul has words as petals.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.