An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.