the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.