You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.