"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

"I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant."

"Worse than a bad musician is a mercenary (musician). We need money to live but we don鈥檛 live to receive money. Besides, a pig with a gold chain on his neck always will be a pig"

"Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years."

"An act against my will is not my act."

"An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself."

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

"I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."