The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.