The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success.

Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

When I see what I want, I do it.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.