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

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

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

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.