Marlene

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless