The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness

Words are a mirror of the soul.

Life will not give you what you want, it will give you what you work for.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?

Truth is mighty and it will prevail.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

The government endangers us with our own money.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.