The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.