I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Sometimes people do get hurt