"As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a h uge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in."

"It has been argued that relatively poor people will borrow to buy a house, so why not to buy a degree?"

"Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have…"

"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

"To me poor people are like bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a flower-pot, …"

"I was terribly shy when I was young, I was so bland, they kept having to introduce me again and again befor…"

"Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing…"