The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.