the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

The sacred servant communicates the sacred words to the souls of the world.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

Rumors are spread by jealous people

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.