Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

A lie never lives to be old.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.