Let Nature Take Its Course And Your

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses. Both The Strong And The Weak Grasp At This Alibi. The Latter Hide Their Malevolence Under The Virtue Of Obedience: They Acted Dishonorably Because They Had To Obey Orders. The Strong, Too, Claim Absolution By Proclaiming Themselves The Chosen Instrument Of A Higher Power -- God, History, Fate, Nation, Or Humanity.

Everyone Wants To Learn How To Win, But No One Wants To Learn How To Accept Defeat.

The Success Of An Assailant's Attack Depends On Surprise, And If You're Sufficiently Alert To Prevent A Surprise, Your Counterattack Is Already Halfway To Being Successful.

The Past Is No More; The Future Not Yet. Nothing Exists Except The Here And Now. Our Grand Business Is Not To See What Lies Dimly At A Distance, But To Do What Lies Clearly At Our Hands.

To Take Responsibility For One's Own Actions, Good And Bad, Is Something Else.