"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."

"You are what you file."

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

"We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job."

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."