"If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on."

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."

"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."

"Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator."

"It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think."

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"

"The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time."

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

"The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge."

"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"I understand life isn't fair, but why couldn't it just once be unfair in my favor?"