Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.

... your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.