Friendship and money: oil and water.

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

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

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

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.

The origin of the word fail means to stop functioning. So as long as you haven't stopped, you haven't failed.

The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

Reading renew the mind.

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.