"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible."

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."

"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."

"The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies."

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."