The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.
Wishing gets people killed,” he often said. “Using your head gets you home.
Their conscious, deliberate act of murder takes the irreplaceable value of life from another. A murderer, by his own choice to kill, forfeits the right to his own life.
It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.
Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I’m finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.
You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don’t punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.
Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.
If you make enough predictions, eventually you will get one right, but that is by accident, not design.
Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.
There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.
In her eyes he saw something that attracted him more than anything else. Intelligence. He saw it flaring there, burning in her, and through it all he felt an overriding sense of her integrity. Richard felt safe.
Dalton had expected it, he never failed to find it remarkable the way he had but to say a thing enough times, through enough people, and it became the popular truth, its provenance lost as it was mimicked by ordinary people who came to believe that it was their own idea – as if original thought routinely came forth from their witless minds of clay.
Civilization must always defend itself.
It was a refined sort of bottled fury that had the potential to be devastatingly violent, and yet at the same time he was also a man able to control it.
When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.
Each day lived,” Richard said, “is one less of our limited number of days gone forever. Time therefore has relevance and meaning to us. Life is precious, so time is precious. Time is how we put value on things such as love. We give our most precious commodity, our time-a part of our lives-over to those we love.
If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings.
Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free.
Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.
Surprise is sometimes the best advantage a warrior can have.