The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio