Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

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 Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

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