The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.

His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

I'm getting back to my old roots.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.