"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

"In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent."

"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."

"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment."

"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

"The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York."

"But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?"