No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

In spiritual terms, where ever your mind goes, that’s where your soul follows.

In the aftermath, we are because they were.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?'

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.