"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile"

"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process"