If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.