“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”

“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”

“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.”

“As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something.”

“Let's not think about the worst. I believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for.”

“Critique my better work only, because I want to get better from my best, not better from my worst.”