"More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people."

“I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.”

Source : "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

“Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!”

“I don't know why my son was born conservative.”

“I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.”

“There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.”

“I do not write, I build.”

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

“I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.”

“Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.”

Source : "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.