The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.