“"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.”
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
“Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.”
“Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else.”
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
“What a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody else, and everybody doing everything wrong!”