"Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide."

"Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it."

"You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences."

"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising."

"Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."

"Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...."

"Avarice is the sphincter of the heart."

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."

"Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride."

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."