The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

A rise in body temperature during sulphonamide treatment intensifies the biochemical reaction between drug and pathogen, while at the same time the heat itself injures the heat-sensitive gonococci.

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.