Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.