Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Past glories are poor feeding.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

He looks like he needs worming.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

When you got a demand issue it's hard to imagine the stock market at an all-time high.

I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into.