Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.