“The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you”

“Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.”

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”

“When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.”

“(Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.”

“You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked. ”