"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it."

"It is a essential truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day."