Africa is God's country, and He can have it.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

No one is destined to meet our own destiny until it's to late

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.