Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.