“I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.”

“While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know.”- The Tapestry of Spirit”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.Daniel H. Burnham”

“No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.”

“Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.”

“. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.”

“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”