My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

It's one giant Bowflex commercial covered in booze vomit.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

There is no harm in a man's cub.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.