What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are e…

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off tryi…

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!'

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would nev…