The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

War makes strangers bedfellows.