It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

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.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.