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"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

"One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."

"It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things."

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."

"Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself."

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."

"The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses."

"Do all things with love."

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."

"If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No.""

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."

"It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there."

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."