Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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

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

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.