Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

But there are very few people who can hold me in a way, to look at them and talk to me. And make me cry, and to talk to me about my life. And also to say, get …

Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding…

But exceed! exceed!