... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?