Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.