People expect me to be dark and gloomy then write that I'm a jolly chap and after all that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man not his history.
By the time we've made it we've had it.
The more sympathy you give the less you need.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be...
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.
