I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.