Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.

Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.