I don’t write letters anymore.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.
I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.
Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
