“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”

“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. ”

“The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”