"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.