To be a good diarist, one must have a 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

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.

Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads!

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.