"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."