I’d like to kill somebody.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

I was me but now he is gone.

A man whose mind has gone astray should study mathematics.

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.