When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.
Bill Cosby
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque or synagogue, seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
And they write innumerable books, being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam
I spend a lot of time reading.
Bill Gates
