It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.