the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

Can you wait until I'm gone to be her boyfriend? Cause right now, I like to think of you as my boyfriend.

If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

More rationale decreases subjectivity.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.