Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Grief is the price of victory.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.