If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Optimism is cowardice.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

A belief is simply a thought that seems true to YOU.

I feel your body against mine, while our lips are intertwined.

Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

I remember people saying to us, "You're too nice. Hollywood is going to eat you up and spit you out." I never listened to them.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.