There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Time is the material from which life is made

The world is with you.

For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.