"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."

"I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal."

"To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."