When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

Odets, where is thy sting?

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

Nice guys finish last.