It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
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.