It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

When you look at extraordinary people look for scars.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.