Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Right now, we gotta get peace back in the world. Peace is a real thing.
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work.
Never pretend that the things you haven’t got are not worth having.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
If one is competent in one thing and understands one thing well, one gains at the same time insight into and knowledge of many other things into the bargain.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand?
I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don’t like to feel good ’cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.[book]
I could not help feeling that they were evil things — mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.