You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

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

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.