I'll show him/her how the cow eats corn.

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.

Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.

Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray: Taking the year together, my dear, There isn't more night than day.

Beggars must be no choosers.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.