You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.