When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
When a wise man does not understand, he says: “I do not understand.” The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man – with human flesh.
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they’re not satisfied until they’ve done it.
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s execution that counts.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?