A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.