Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.