“It's always the people who don't want things who get them.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs—because I want them—for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies.”

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

“People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.”

“The hole in one's heart gets filled by others around you. Friends won't flock to someone who abandons the memory of his friends and gives up on the world just because things don't go the way he wants them to. That won't help fill the hole in your heart. And people won't help those who run away and do nothing. As long as you don't give up, there will always be salvation.”

“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”