If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor to put himself in question, to take care of himself, and to make his soul as beautiful and wise as possible.
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.