Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

The mission of the church is missions.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.