A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Desire is half of life

The starting point toward developing an improved future is building the power to picture it.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.