"Never trust anyone. You are always alone, and betrayal is inevitable."

"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism."

"Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal."

"There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears."

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."

"The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone."

"REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing."

"Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world."

"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."