When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.