To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.

Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

The bent but unbroken ones.

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

It is almost impossible to not triumph to bigger and better things, if you aren't afraid to make mistakes, learn from them, and try again with a better approach.

Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.