I am not the kind of person I want to be.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Is evolution just another name for God?

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.