“No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.”

“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

“There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.”

“Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.”

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”

“The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, protect, encourage, and save others.”

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.”

“The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.”

“What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.”

“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”