The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Socialism is a dead horse.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life