Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up