"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

"You know every Napoleon has his Waterloo. I'm like Napoleon. I'm at my Waterloo, and I'm on my knees."

"That's absurd. You don't even know me."