The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.