Stephen

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde