“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

“Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be planted, just like a seed. With fertile soil, it may grow into a flower or tree, which will re-seed, thus producing a whole field or forest.”

“Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly....”

“It's not like there's a law against flying.""Yes there is. The law of gravity.”

“When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”