I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.