I'm glad to know he's [Paneloux] better than his sermon.

I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

A better man might have handled the situation with more grace than I did. A better man would have been able to separate his personal life from his career.

Being superior to others is nothing other than having people talk about your affairs and listening to their opinions. The general run of people settle for their own opinions and thus never excel. Having a discussion with a person is one step in xcelling him (...)

I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.