Authority is powerful — You can't fight City Hall

Authority is everything — eloquence is not what the speaker says but who he is that gives weight to eloquence.

Authority is anathema to freedom — Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Authority is everything — people accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Commitment is requisite to real living — If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Commitment is at the heart of personhood. An uncommitted person is not person at all.

Commitment is the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Complexity must be compensated with simplicity.

Complexity is the mother of reinvention

Complexity is that out of which simplicities emerge.

Complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Debt is about the only thing you can acquire without money.

Debt is terrible — a man in debt is caught in a net

Debt is worse than poverty — he that gets out of debt, grows rich.

Debt is not advisable. A debtor must often lie.