The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.