I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.