The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.