You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing

you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
Markus Wolf

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
Trevor Dunn