I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

How little we know of what there is to know.

All thinking men are atheists.