"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."

"When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety."

"We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally."