I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.