There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.