“Cricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.”

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.

We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That’s what Egypt is all about.

There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one’s desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .

In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.