The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

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

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

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.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.