The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.