Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.