All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.