To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.

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.

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.

Then Walter died as he lived, he told his mate. A hero, a soldier, and a survivor who chose to protect what was precious to him. I don't think, if you could ask him, that he would have any regrets.

Architecture is invention.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.