"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."

"It is a subtle truth that serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger."

"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."