Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.