People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

Children are the keys of paradise.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.