“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.”

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

“I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.”

“If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.”

“I would have made a good pope.”

“I wouldn't want to be a Russian leader. You'd never know when you were being taped.”

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”