And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Every civilization depends on 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 sleeper must awaken.

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.