I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.