“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

“There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.”

“But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?”

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”