Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed over there.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.