There are no twin souls in God's universe.
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms. . . . such a society will be better able to innovate. . . since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.
China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.
The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.
Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
The whole tape [Dedication 5] is amazing. It's my favourite accomplishment [working with Lil Wayne] and I say that with thought. It's the biggest accomplishment I've made today, because Lil Wayne is probably the biggest reason why I'm sitting here right now, rapping and doing what I do. I'm a huge Wayne fan forever.
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.