Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls