“People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting”

“I don't trust the Society, and I don't trust the rebelions, I don't choose either of them, I've seen what both can do.”

“Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.”

“Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.”

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

“Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.”