To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
The only way to deal with the bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
Formality is a straitjacket to those who lack character and self-confidence.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.