"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."

"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."

"Normality is death."

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."

"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."