Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.