I loved 'Freaks and Geeks. ' I don't know a better show.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. . . We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave
I've travelled to many states and seen the suffering in people's eyes I've visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs have literally disappeared. An embarrassment to our country and it's horrible.
I wouldn't want to stop making those gaffes, even if I could. People realise I am flesh and blood. I am not sensitive about it. It's just my enthusiasm. I want to say so much more than I have time for.
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.