Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. - Frank Herbert

It is another kind of marriage — the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat’s explanation and his excuse.

You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.

People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.