People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

There is never a lost opportunity in business

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

All quiet along the Potomac.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience and understand fully.

When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.