You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.