I can never forgive God for having invented the French

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

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.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.