If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.