"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty,..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.”

“The purpose of life afterall is to live it.”

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”

“I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.”

“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.”

“If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

“There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!”

“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”

“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”