When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

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