It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.