You must not treat my immortal works as quarries to be used at will by the various hacks whom you may employ to compile anthologies.

The best baseball players are those who can handle success and failure with equal grace

It’s not what the rabbi’s state that characterizes Jewishness but rather what we Israelis do each day – our activities and our qualities. 

A particularly American ability to come up with consistently dreadful names for new things. Just as there is an inspiring national talent to invent stuff and to think forward, so there is an equal and opposite imaginative black hole when it comes to naming the stuff: the conflation and truncation of words, adding extraneous vowels and hyphens to the portmanteau

The anti-gun urban liberals are really not that much more evolved. They have an equal and opposite fanaticism about guns—that to own one is to be a latent murderer. But worse than that, it’s to be tasteless. There is a raft of assumptions that go with gun ownership.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls; in short, behaving as if you were in heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.