Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.