As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

These days I mostly worry ‘bout my bank account/I ain’t backin’ out ‘til I own a bank to brag about.

My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.

A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.