"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another."

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."

"I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get."

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."

"You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever."

"Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain."

"As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him."