the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

Can't nobody take my pride. Can't nobody hold me down.

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.