"[T]he gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape."

"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist"

"Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."

"Its good to live alone than to live in a bad company"

"The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions."

"Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome."

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

"Fake is as old as the Eden tree."

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment."

"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."

"I have no great message to the world."

"I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind."

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."

"On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'"

"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."

"Gluttony is not a secret vice."

"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies."

"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"