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.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.