Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.