I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.