Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping. "
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Every man has within himself the entire human condition
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.
I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.