"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."

"The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name."

"The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents."

"It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!"

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us."

"Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous."

"I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in- law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in."

"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."

"What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money."

"Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself."

"Time didn't pass; it tailgated."

"Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice..."