Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

It sucks being fat, you know.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

She was a genius, my mother.