The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.