It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.