That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.

Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

-You dressed me like a woman-I did-It was insulting-Only if you think a woman is lesser than man.-Aren't they?-A woman saved your life

When you know truly know that God loves you it won't matter when others don't. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won't matter when others won't.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.