No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.