“Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.”

“Perhaps the most instructive experience is to see the way governments all over the world are exclaiming, "What are we going to do about the United States?!”

“The most successful people in all fields have a great work ethic.”

“There is a collision course between the greed and rationalizations of the West and the force of nature; science and the planet are the casualties.”

“There is always room for optimism; there is always something to do that is historically important, choices in one's life that matter, a challenge against more powerful foes, great people to work with, and a real chance for victory.”

“Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject”

“For the answers make sense only in relation to the questions which they answer; the questions, furthermore, make sense only in relation to the concrete experiences of reality from which they have arisen; and the concrete experiences, together with their linguistic articulation, finally make sense only in the cultural context which sets limits to both the direction and range of intelligible differentiation. Only the complex of experience question answer as a whole is a constant of consciousness . . . No answer, thus, is the ultimate truth in whose possession mankind could live happily forever after, because no answer can abolish the historical process of consciousness from which it has emerged.”