I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.

You may set the Negro free, but you cannot make him otherwise than an alien to the European. Nor is this all we scarcely acknowledge the common features of hum…

It is now quite plain to me - as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify - that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses' f…

[explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic] He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. 'They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're comi…