The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.