Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.
We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.
We need a hit, so here I go.