You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.

Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.

Freedom costs too much

In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down

Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.

... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

You are brighter than the sun, prettier than a fresh flower, and sweeter than any chocolate. Your songs are always humming in my heart. I wish you a sweet sweetest day.

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.

Old age is the new childhood.

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.