"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."

"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?"

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."

"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."