Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

An empty man is full of himself.