Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
I remember one point seeing I had like 60-some different cell phones. I know I only use one.
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.