I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.