"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it."

"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."

"We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."