If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Not one word of the following is true

My father was all brain and little heart.