I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.

Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.