I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.