The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.