There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.