If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

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

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.

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

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

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.