Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.