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

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

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.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.