"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more."

"Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'"

"Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be."

"Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate..."

"[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners."

"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."

"Discretion is not the better part of biography."

"Duty is ours, results are God's."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances."

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."