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

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.

Money to a writer is time to write.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.