He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

I will reign over a new world!