Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

The devil is compromise.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.