"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

"My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal."

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think."

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

"Time is fun when you're eating flies."

"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary."

"Solitude: sweet absence of faces."

"France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper."

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

"It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."