[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

May I ask you a highly personal question?""It's what life does all the time.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

To be a great dreamer you have to keep pushing and pushing through this crowded world.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.