No man can be convinced when he will not.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.

Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.

Death is more meaningful than just being dead.

It is unusual, ” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

When I was a kid, everyone called me crazy for playing goal, but they were the ones chasing after the puck while I just let it come to me.