Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.