Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow fo...
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
I am not the river I am the net.
