Equality. . . like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Human improvement is from within outward.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.
People in England are so bloody nosy.
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
This is God's universe and He does things His way. You may have a better way, but you don't have a universe.