In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Don't be easy to define. Let them wonder about you.

Women are not made for one single man

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.