“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.”
“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”
“Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.”
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
“Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.”