It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.

Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

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

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

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'