“I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.”

“A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”

“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?”

“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.”

“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”

“The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.It was:'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?”