I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he’d just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.

Don’t take life seriously because you can’t come out of it alive.