Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

A car for every purse and purpose.

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.

The business of business is business.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Work hard. There is no short cut.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Always listen to your inner voice.

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.