Personal Quotes

“Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.”

“If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”

“If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”

“I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.”

“My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.”

“I haven't been very active in politics.”

“I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.”

“I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.”

“I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.”

“I was raised to farm work.”

“It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.”

“As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!”

“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.”

“If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.”

“I love the sea.”

“Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.”

“Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.”

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

“My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.”

“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.”

“If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.”