Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

And yet he found comfort in the absence of telling.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.