1. “People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.”
2. “Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.”
3. “Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.”
4. “The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.”
5. “A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.”
6. “Freedom without structure is its own slavery.”
7. “Pain now is better than pain deferred.”
8. “Things that change history tend to be organized.”
9. “The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.”
10. “We are primarily the products of thinking that happen below the level of awareness.”
11. “The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.”
12. “People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.”
13. “The rich don’t exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.”
14. “Emotion is the foundation of reason.”
15. “You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.”
