After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.