Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.