The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.

God wants to create something new on this earth

The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.