Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.

"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. "

Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.