I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.
I'm a loner. I like to hide a lot.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.