The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

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