Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.

Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

Freedom costs too much

In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down

Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.

... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be.

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Beautiful places are not for sleeping; they are for staying awake to watch the beauties!

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.