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To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

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In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

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