As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

There is little success where there is little laughter.