The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

That feeling when you know you're being fought for.

I don't want to fall in love with you, ' she said, pushing away. 'why not?''because you'll just end up using it against me.

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.