I found out a long time ago that you have to take some chances in this life. Otherwise you are just a vegetable, headed for the soup pot. - Robert A. Heinlein

No, chum, there’s a lot of guff talked about freedom. No man is free. There is no such thing as freedom. There are only various privileges.

He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.

“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. I spoke of myself as ‘responsible’ for this group, that was verbal shorthand. The most I can do—or you, or any leader—is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”