Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by - And that has made all the difference.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.