The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own.