You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.