My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.