The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.