And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.