By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Humility is attentive patience.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.