"Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right."

"Silence is the loudest thing I've ever heard"

"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."

"It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg."

"There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it."

"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."

"Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor."

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."

"A kind Of excellent dumb discourse."