Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. under communism, its just the opposite.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.

Only the man who finds everything wrong and expects it to get worse is thought to have a clear brain.

Politics is not the art of the impossible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn’t know itself.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn’t even a one eyed man?

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.