What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick