“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”

“The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.”

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”

“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”

“A true philosopher must never give up.”

“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.”

“Never, never, never give in!”