You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
