The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.