We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

He never ran from personal pain, but he rushed to help you with yours, ... He was rabbi, priest, chaplain and mullah when he was not morale officer-in-chief.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.