The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it. '
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact. . . . The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.