I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.