"People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to the Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer."

"The only real training for leadership is leadership."

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."

"The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them."

"One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask."

"Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power."

"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."

"I have not slept one wink."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

"If you are a terror to many, then beware of many."

"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle."

"Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy."