Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.