When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.