Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.