“Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.”

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”

“None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.”

“Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.”

“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”

“La pobreza en el uso de la lengua implica una vida pobre, elemental, casi animalesca.”

“and then ah God”