There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.