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“Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes: that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses”
Source : "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.
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“Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.”
Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.269, Profile Books
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“Myth is the nothing that is all.”
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“No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult”
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“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
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“You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.”
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“It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 523), 1895.
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“There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.”