"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."

"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."

"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

"I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country."

"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

"There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!"

"The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God."