The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.