I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.