“God doesn't make junk”

“I am somebody cause God don't make no junk”

“and then ah God”

“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.”

“God gave us our relatives: thank god we can choose our friends.”

“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.”