I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.