Napoleon Bonaparte

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."

"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world."

"The really great man is the man who helps the other man."

"Adventure is worthwhile."

"The future is the only transcendent value for men without God."

"There is a wide difference between a blockade and a siege."

"Being is more important than having."

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"A soldier's first obligation is obedience."

"The divine science is geometry."

"I have but one passion - France."

"The beauty of a fine day never impressed me so much as when the weather was bad."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"A writer is either a working man or he is nothing."

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws."

"To refuse to be happy is to insist on some right which the world denies."

"The art of communicating is the language of leadership."

"History is written by the victors."

"The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good."

"Ability is not enough without opportunity."

"No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet construction of the world."

"The purpose of discipline is to create joy."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"What a beautiful fix we are in now: peace has been declared."

"I have great faith in the ultimate success of my mission."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"They cannot scare me, if I am their hero, I am not afraid."

"The world suffers a lot. It suffers from the war between different religions, from the war between different nations, from inner conflicts in themselves, from the need - damn the need! - to destroy each other."