Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.