No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

I think that's the key [of communication] - to not use one method of communication for all people.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.