The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

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.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

What does a mirror look at?

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!