There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

I have never willingly chased a ball.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.