|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Sabastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before.
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops, at all.
You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
