"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured."
"Imitation is a necessity of human nature."
"A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop."
"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
"Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall."
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men."
"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."
"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms."