To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

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

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

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

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.