"Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world."

“I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.”

“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”

“When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!”

Source : 1961 The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.4.

“You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks.”

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“Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.”

“So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.”

“Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes”

“Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.”