Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Hope clouds observation.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.