All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.