A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

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

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"