When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

People respond when they are taught, and that primarily by example, rather than preached at. Jesus modeled just this approach in His life."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

If you are able to forget yourself, you will know you would not be forgotten!

Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.

I happen to support that in a way that will actually work to our benefit.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Truth is above all, but higher still is true living.