A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

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

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.