All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.