Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.