World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

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

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.