1-"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
2-"Quietis peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it"
3-"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."
4-"Statesare not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions"-
5 -"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
6."If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
7-"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
8-"Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching. "