"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever...." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”

“Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.”

“There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.”

“When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.”

“I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?”

“The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.”

“Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.”

“I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.”

“I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.”