I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.

What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

There is still a future with music, because people want music

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.