"They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"