The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

It is only when you lose your wings, you really learn to fly. Its when the sense of loss, becomes the driving force.

I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.