I love treason but hate a traitor.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

Your potential is hidden in what you are yet to do, not what you have already done.

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties

The mind is weak, and it must be mastered, controlled. The body, it knows no master save for instinct and, unfortunately, it is built for terminal suffering.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust.

I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.