Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

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

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.