I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’ Others dream things that never were and say ‘Why not?’

I created nothing; I invented nothing; I imagined nothing; I perverted nothing; I simply discovered drama in real life.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims . . . but accomplices.”—George Orwell, English author and essayist (1903 – 1950), attributed “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The Family is a petty despotism.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

My own education operated by a succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.