Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.