"I would rather obey a fine lion,..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.”

“He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.”

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”

“You don't become an effective leader by default.”

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

“All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.”

“Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.”

“I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.”