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

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

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

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

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

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

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