Decision making is the heart of administration, and the heart of decision making is art rather than science.

我不认为自己是个名人，我认为自己是个获得了巨大机会的歌手。

Life is not fair, get used to it.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all doing direct the other way.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

我知道我是聪明的，因为我自知无知。

我可残酷，但不可无良心；我可用语言的利剑来刺戳她，但决不用真刃。