“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

“For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”

“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”

“Lanser said, "There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can't you understand that?”

“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”

“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”