The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.

War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.

There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.

The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.

Stories shape the world.

To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.

I do respect clever.

Animal rage is scary, but not as scary as control.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.