None Of Us Are Better Than Anybody Else

Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right.

I have examined myself thoroughly and come to the conclusion that I don’t need to change much.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Officialdom has banished street vendors and street entertainers and the only persons who still earn their living on the streets are prostitutes and dope peddlers.

Civilisation is….
Weapons of war, prisons, murder, drugs, brutal sports, suicides, alcohol, animal abuse, rape, divorce, electric chairs, paedophiles, prostitution, kidnapping, torture, low wages, famine, greed….

Most human beings learn to be tolerant, unselfish, and kind to each other.
But their story never gets into the newspapers or the novels or the cinema.
There is no drama in homespun loyalty and homespun love.
But these things outlive and outlast all other things.
They are the splendour and radiance and glory of the commonplace.

None of us are better than anybody else.
Those who think they are, are fools.
And there are many fools in the world today.