We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.