Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart’s desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being.

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom

I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

When in doubt, make a western.

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.