The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

You can be right or you can be happy.

...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

How does the phrase radical Islamic terrorism link all the believers of a faith to terrorism? If I said radical Christian terrorism, does that mean I as a Catholic are a terrorist?

The past does not equal the future.