Of the billionaires I have known money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

To this day my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist to survive but to move ahead to go up to achieve to conquer.