We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Nothing recedes like success.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

She's been on more laps than a napkin.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

Relationships are like crystals you dont realize how much you love it until it breaks.

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

California is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

Todays gossip is tomorrows headline.

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.