What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.
There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions.
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14. 5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1. 83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3. 9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.