"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the will to act in spite of it."

I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man.

"I don't want to be compared to anyone. I want to make my own history."

When people talk to us about others, they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves, they are nearly always interesting.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all doing direct the other way.