No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.