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“So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.”
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“The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.”
Source : Francis Hutcheson (1755). “A System Of Moral Philosophy: In Three Books : To which is Prefixed Some Account Of The Life, Writings, And Character Of The Author”, p.266
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“But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.”
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“I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.”
Source : "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, in The Review of Reviews. Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 1893.
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“When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.”
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“You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.”
Source : "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. 
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“If you insist, how can I resist?”
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“We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.”
