Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

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

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.