A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.