I do respect clever.

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 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.

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.

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.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.