"A personality is a full Congress of orators and pressure-groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war-mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-meetings, spiritualists, and astrologers."
I think about the weight of history.
You can't get to the top by being nice.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case, he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I'm not going to keep on knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that.