Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.