The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.
Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.
All you can take with you is that which you've given away.
God. . . God. . . dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God. . .
I want to do something big, something important.
Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.
Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence … they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. … a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have
To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.