Don't call it freedom, unless it includes the freedom to be absolutely disgusting.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.