Power Politics Existed Before Machiavelli Was Ever

Somehow Life Doesn't Always Pay Off To Those Who Are Most Insistent.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

God Is What Man Finds That Is Divine In Himself. It Is The Best Way Man Can Behave In The Ordinary Occasions Of Life, And The Farthest Point To Which Man Can Stretch Himself.

When Evil Acts In The World It Always Manages To Find Instruments Who Believe That What They Do Is Not Evil But Honorable.

Principles-and I Have In Mind Such Principles As States' Rights Or National Sovereignty Or The Free Market Or Pacifism-have A Way Of Drying Up While The Sap Of Life Goes Flowing In Another Direction.