"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore."

"Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways."

"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against."

"Wait here, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable."

"Act as if were impossible to fail."

"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."

"A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness."

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."

"I call that a scumhead."

"The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job."

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."