It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
[After Communism succeeds] …then, there will come a peace across the earth.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
