To determine if you're human. Be silent.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.