“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
“There's a sweetness in your smile that cuts through the steel of my heart like a diamond blade.-Joe Deadly Captive”
“To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.”
“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?”
“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”