“[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”
“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
“Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.”
“What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the work, you will find your reward in that.”
“We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny.”
“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.”