Book: Star butterfly

We underestimated the ability of a person never to be satisfied with what he has. He's on the Ground, and therefore wants to fly into space. It's in space, and therefore longs to return to Earth.

- Would you like to be a spiritual teacher to others? - seriously asked Adrian Weiss.
- Oh no, not at all. Because it means that I won't be able to make mistakes, to lie or to talk nonsense. I'm too fond of these three freedoms to trade them for other benefits.

I was an anarchist. I always dreamed of a world without police and government.

The absence of suffering can kill a man.

Seven terrible disasters persecuted people.
- What?
- I'll list them, though not all in order.
1. Earthquakes ravaged the building.
2. Religious fanatics who wanted to destroy the whole world everywhere and exploding bombs.
3. Mosquitoes, whose bites not allowed to sleep.
4. The atomic bomb, vysvobojdenie cloud of poison.
5. Birds carrying diseases harmful to humans.
6. Giant waves, zataplivaja continents.
7. And finally rats.
- Rats?
- Rat's way of thinking, i.e. selfishness and the right of the strongest.

The cure creates the disease, the law creates an offence, the prison generates criminals, the Constitution gives impetus to the revolution.

In his own way I the same as you: I use the night to "see far". Before you go to bed, I'm considering some problem, and you know what, waking up in the morning, I find in the head with a turnkey solution.

Power, violence and faith, three forms of dependence of people.

In the morning a rich man found that is still alive and is again in the real world. It caused him a fit of laughter.

Every generation sincerely believes that the world was better off before them and will be better after.

How can you be sure in their own right, when the world yells to you that you're wrong?

There are moments when you must give up things from our past, no matter how attractive they may be, that would go to the future.

The crowd does not like two categories of people: the favorites of fortune and failures.

We continue to believe that only monkeys with high levels of consciousness. But in fact the opposite. We are a highly developed consciousness placed in the body of... monkeys.