People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.