There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.