"To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals."

“All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

“For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.”

“Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.”

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

“I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.”

“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”

“My role on "The Sopranos" was so small and I only had one day of shooting. I had fun that day because I met Michael Imperioli, who is a friend of Johnny Ventimiglia, and Johnny and me are close friends.”