"I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Business is the salt of life"

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"