If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?