- Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
- Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
- You don't get harmony even when everybody sings the same note.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
- There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
- Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
- The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.
- There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
- Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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