'Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.'

'[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. I…

'I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.'

'If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the gross national product would go up.'