Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

Love is the greatest force in the universe.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.