Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.