Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

See me when you look at me.

All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.