Everyone expects to go further than his father went everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the pas...
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living a support in misfortune an education or future security.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably...
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful rich and famous but if those are our goals we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough...
Necessity who is the mother of our invention.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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