Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.