Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.