I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.