Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

- Melvyn Douglas

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

- Melvyn Douglas

Your word is your bond.

- Melvyn Douglas

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

- Melvyn Douglas

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

- Melvyn Douglas