The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.