A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. – W. Somerset Maugham

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. – R. Buckminster Fuller