"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."

"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint."

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it?"

"Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity."