The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.