I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.

Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

I have more money now than I know what to do with.