My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Political life loves some volatility.