Fear is the mind-killer.

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead