Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

Even our most difficult moments bring us gifts. The trick, of course, is gratitude. Therein will you find both your peace and your joy.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent