“Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.”

“We tend to quarrel most bitterly with those who most nearly resemble ourselves.”

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”

“Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.”

“Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.”

“As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.”