False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.