The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.