I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.