Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Until you're ready to look foolish you'll never have the possibility of being great.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

No human being however great or powerful was ever so free as a fish.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.