The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.