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.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

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

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.