"A little integrity is better than any..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“Meek young men grow up in libraries.”

“Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.”

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

“Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.”

“It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.”

“Honestly, I never really put the mic down.”

“I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide.”

“I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.”