All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.