When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.