“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.”

“The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.”

“Let us see what we have done for this world? Some people are busy chasing the world, some are dizzy interpreting the world. But very few focus on making and creating a better world.”

“Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.”

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”

“We all stand on the dart board and very few of us catch the darts. Do not think it is unfair. It is fair but you are unlucky.”

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”

“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”

“The opposite of work is idleness. But very few of us know what to do with idleness. When you look at the way that we distribute our lives in general, you realize that in the periods in which we have a lot of money, we have very little time. And then when we finally have time, we have neither the money nor the health.”