Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

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

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

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.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.