Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.