Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
There's no art where there's no fee.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
High thoughts must have high language.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity
You can't force yourself to be something you are not.
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.