Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Thrift is a great revenue.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.