[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

It's hard to tell where reality ends and illusions begins. They blend - then they separate

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

Sometimes things need shaking up. You’ve got to test the limits.

Who you are is much greater than who you pretend to be

[Donald] Trump is the answer to, "What do we do?".

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.