Auric Goldfinger

"Hope is a weakness for the uncertain."

"Music without structure is merely noise. Much like life without discipline."

"Faith in anything but oneself is folly."

"Science reveals the mechanisms of control. That interests me deeply."

"Literature teaches us how men rationalize their failures."

"To master philosophy, one must transcend philosophical thinking."

"Humor is a tool for the weak to cope with inadequacy."

"I have no interest in the aesthetics of art, only its value."

"Death is the ultimate failure. I refuse to contemplate it."

"Education is merely the transfer of conventional wisdom. Genius requires no such transfer."

"Work is not a burden for those who understand its true nature."

"Dreams are the preparations for achievement."

"The beauty of precision is that it admits no error."

"No man is truly free until he accepts his own nature."

"Wisdom comes not from experience but from the intelligence to learn quickly."

"Courage without calculation is merely recklessness."

"Every moment of delay is a moment surrendered to chance."

"The pursuit of power is the only pursuit worth undertaking."

"Money is congealed desire. I understand this perfectly."

"To be truly healthy, one must be disciplined in all things."

"Adventure is for those who have not yet found their destiny."

"My imagination is bounded only by my will to achieve."

"Technology is merely another form of power to be wielded."

"History repeats because men fail to learn its lessons."

"The truth is that most men are beneath consideration."

"I have transcended the need for love. It weakens the mind."

"My plans require minds sharper than diamonds and hearts of stone."

"Patience is the virtue of those who understand timing."

"To change one's nature is to become something greater."

"Knowledge itself means nothing without the will to apply it."