“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

Your friends are all the dullest dogs.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Compassionate conservative. I don’t know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.

A little less conversation, a little more action.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

My conversations with my mom have always been and will always be some of my favorite memories.

Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.