The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.