Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

I sweet potato what I sweet potato.

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.