Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.