My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.