Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.