The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

Life is extremely complicated.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.