The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

You can't burn memories, Jerri. I guess you know that now.

Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Women are still second-class citizens.

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.