Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

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

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.