People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.