If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

I am not the river I am the net.

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

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

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