All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.