She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

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

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.