You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.

We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time.

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.