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.

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.

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.

I do respect clever.

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.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.