Convinced of their destiny to rule, they convinced themselves that the end justified the means. - Robert A. Heinlein

“Why do you like to play chess so well?”
“Because it is the only thing in the world where I can see all the factors and understand all the rules.”

But it is no joke to attend the funeral of a dear friend, dead in her golden youth because her baby killed her.
I was at such a funeral in the twenties and heard a sleek old priest talk about “God’s will.” At the graveside I managed to back away from the coffin such that I got him proper in his instep with a sharp heel. When he yelped, I told him it was God’s will.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.