You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.