Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections

Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

I don't play any role; I just play golf. I love the competition. For me, the pleasure begins on Thursday morning when a tournament starts. I come along and try to win. And that's what I enjoy.

So much wrong could religion induce.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.