Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.