I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.