“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment”

“The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.”

“Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.”

“Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.”

“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”

“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life...”

“Ideas are the source of all things”