We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

I'm not a big sports fan.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.