I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.

Fate is the cruelest of masters, takingLife when it pleases or at random, handingRigged decks to whom it pleases, cheatingAll alike and none the wiser, takingEverything away from those with nothing.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I don't think good films have messages.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.