"The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability."

"Brutality creates respect."

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching."

"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear."

"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel."

"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."

"If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling."

"General principles should not be based on exceptional cases."

"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."

"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."

"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project."