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The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.