"You want to be the fire and wish for the wind."

"Never trust a man who reads the newspaper to get information. Trust the one who reads it to find out what opinions are being pushed."

"Bureaucracy is a tax on the intelligent."

"dessert... in his opinion they're 'crap' and he will only eat Lebanese pastries."

"Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands."