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

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.

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

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.

The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

If I had a kid, and someone had touched my kid, I am sure that if I had a gun or a knife, I would go and stab the person who I supposed touched my kid.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness