Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.
It’s called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
In order to learn, one must change one’s mind.
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
There’s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that’s being so good at what you do that they can’t ignore you.
When there aren’t any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association.
A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.
My hands are clean, but not because I wasn’t prepared to bloody them.
Ho said, ‘I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.’
Maybe we’re the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can’t be thwarted.