I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.

Loving fathers give their children a sense of their history.

My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.