“Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?”

“My father was often angry when I was most like him.”

“Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.”

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

“God forgives those who invent what they need.”

“Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.”

“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.”

“What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”

“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”

“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”

“It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.”