"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."

"You look after your empire; I'll look after myself."

"People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail."

"Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 鈥檆ause it鈥檚 expected of ya, not 鈥檆ause of anything else."

"No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some."

"Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

"To give money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman's power nor an easy matter."

"I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew,0); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."

"'Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city."

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators."