The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

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.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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