there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.

Alone.Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.