“To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame”

“Most distinguishable about the idiot, Hedge noted, was their fear of that which was different. Those who feared difference always made a point of finding difference in others in order to feel more secure in their sameness.”

“Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!”

“Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared to believe that some thing inside them is superior than circumstances.”

“It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances”

“Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.”