Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
Humans are almost always lonely.
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.
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.
How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
. . . We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.