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

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.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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