Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?