One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?