"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."

"It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."

"Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."