I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.