Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.