Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Man have to have friends even in hell.
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too–even when you?re in the dark. Even when you?re falling.
Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.