Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. - Frank Herbert

"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.