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

Law is the ultimate science.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

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.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.