I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.