“I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”

“I have your word?”
“You trust my word?”
“You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”

“When I can make
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!
"I had you and I have you now no more.”

“You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.”

“You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love… but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?”

“When I had the strength, I did not have the patience. I have the patience today and I no longer have the power.”

“Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”

“There is a special providence for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America.”

“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”