Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.