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

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.

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

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.

Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn’t keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.