You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.