The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

-- Hypatia

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.

-- Kitarō Nishida

Gold is the ground on which power speaks.

-- Kanō Eitoku

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

-- Phil Knight