Traditional methods have wisdom, but sustainability requires us to evolve beyond them when necessary.

A book can be a friend, a teacher, and a doorway to another world.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The problem of quality management is not what people don't know about it. The problem is what they think they do know.

The artist must be a servant of the unknown.

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

The anarchic nature of the international system means that states must rely on self-help to ensure their survival.

I don't know if I have a philosophy. I just try to write the best book I can.