It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.