He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.

This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.