Lolly Daskal

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.