The modern state is characterized by its ability to concentrate and use power effectively.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
We must constantly challenge the status quo to drive meaningful progress.
If you meddle in other people's marriages you may lose a friend, but acquire his wife.