“At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.”

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.

He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

Once begun, change cannot be reversed.

You’re saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

Green’s a good color.

In it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand…

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye)

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous.

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.