Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.