Paul

“If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitated toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth

“Strictness to oneself joined with tenderness towards others, forms a truly excellent character. But for the most part, the man who is mild towards others, will be so towards himself, and he who is severe towards himself will be the same towards others; a character which is tender towards itself and severe towards others, is of all the most contemptible.”
― Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man

“The Austrian School of economics is an alternative to the mainstream approach. It places economics on a sound, human basis. It avoids the traps that plague most of modern economics: the assumption of selfishness as the basic human motivation, a narrow definition of rational behavior, and the overuse of unrealistic models.”
― Gene Callahan, Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School

“This led to a debate between the two men on the differences between what was probable, plausible, and possible”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow