In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.