A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.
Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won't score lots of goals, but they won't concede many, either.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.