"Sometimes reputations outlive their applications. Sometimes fires don't go out when you're done playing with them."

"My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way."

"All general statements are false."

"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."

"I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever."

"The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

"All art is quite useless."

"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."

"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."