Alphabet Quotes

Passion is the engine of creativity.

If you want to shine like a sun,

first burn like a sun.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe.

You have to make it fall.

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know

what his grandson will be.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation,

and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is,

on the appearance of one of these two sides,

to find the other: given the upper,

to find the under side.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Sex is part of nature.

I go along with nature.

My own view is that

every company requires a long term view.

We are all alike,

on the inside.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding

that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops

under his command make him.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Character is always known.

Thefts never enrich;

alms never impoverish;

murder will speak out of stone walls.

The faster you go,

the shorter you are.

Ardently do today what must be done.