"No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it."

"If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself."

"But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers."

"Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors."

"Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school."

"My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd."

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

"Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq."