The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.