Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.