Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.