Citizen Kane

"I never wanted to hurt anyone - I only wanted to matter."

"The saddest thing in the world is to have everything except what you really want."

"I've learned that money can't buy peace of mind."

"Success is a mistress who only loves those who love her first."

"Perhaps I'm just an ordinary man who wanted to be extraordinary."

"I wanted to be everything and nothing at the same time."

"The difference between a hero and a man is the difference between truth and lies."

"You see, most people have dreams, but they never pursue them."

"I was just thinking - that was true once."

"What would you have done if you'd been me?"

"I have enemies because I have made enemies."

"The greatest thing a man can do is to help others."

"I did love you once, Susan. I think I still do."

"A man who doesn't spend time with his family is not a man."

"There is always a choice, even when there seems to be none."

"I wanted to buy my way into everything."

"The thing is, I never learned how to take care of something I loved."

"I'm more successful now than I've ever been, yet I've never been more unhappy."

"A newspaper should tell the truth as it sees it."

"Susan, I don't think we can ever be truly happy together."

"I have always tried to do what I thought was right."

"You know what my biggest mistake was? Believing my own publicity."

"Every man builds a castle, but some castles are made of sand."

"I wanted to show the world what I could do."

"The most important thing is not to think too much about the past."

"I'll never be as good as I once thought I was."

"My father taught me that the way to a man's heart is through his newspaper."

"I've often thought that if I hadn't been a newspaper publisher, I might have been a great artist."

"Perhaps we've been a little hard on each other."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become absolutely free."