Who said “Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”?

“The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.”

“The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.”

“It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.”

“One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.”

“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

“Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.”

“The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.”