War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

One must be something, in order to do something.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.