People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

[On marriage and permanent attach

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

A life of no limitations is the only state of living that you should always bargain for.

No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

People ask me, Jimmy, howd you get here tonight. Lets just say it involved a two-hour make-out session with Elaine Stritch. It got pretty heavy actually, I almost had to host.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.