Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.