If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.