Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"