Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see “Why are you not leading”?

I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.