One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.