If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
All anger is about something which has already happened. Is it of any use getting angry about something which you cannot alter?
It is inevitable that a tragedy should arouse sorrowful feelings. Still, out of that sorrow itself comes a feeling of triumph – the victory of the human will over the most adverse circumstances. And thus out of sorrow and defeat come joy and victory.
