Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.
Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.