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.
If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.