We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?