Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him—natural and reassuring—like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

Fear first made gods in the world.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.