The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.