No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

For me, there is a strange beauty in remembering.

Flowers have to stretch to bloom.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

John McCain's complaint is we're either not at war somewhere, or if we're at war, we leave too soon. So we're not there soon enough, and he wants us to stay forever wherever we send troops.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

Man is not mind, he is soul.

The colder the weather, the bigger the gun Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one In June it's .22's, February it's fifths But all year round, it's 616.