If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

I am a sick man: I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.