the sleeper must awaken.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

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

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

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.