The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.