Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.