The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.