It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.