"Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary."

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"The most useless are those who never change through the years."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."