You will discover that silence is a spectrum where there is no end to how deep you can go. It is there, in the eternal quiet, that you will find the mastery that you seek.

If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.

Humility will allow you to master what you need to learn, and to be fully present when the moment comes to use what you have mastered.

For those who die with honor, the touch of death is simply the unlocking of a door between this life and the next.

I value liberty above all else. Without liberty, no other value can be realized.

Behind every unquestionable belief is a system of control.

If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.

Deflect, co-opt, absorb or annihilate. It doesn't matter if you're in a sword fight or conducting a worldwide military campaign, these are the options for dealing with your opposition.

The oppression we all face is guarded by what we are unwilling to question.

If you wish to abrogate all responsibility for your moral and intellectual independence, then by all means - conform with the herd and obey blindly.