When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

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

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.