I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

She sounds the way bananas taste.