If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.